Berdien had read in the newspaper about this phenomenon that is going on worldwide. People put a tiny library in front of their door with books and the locals can borrow the books for free.Berdien thought it was too bad her books were just catching dust after being read and she wanted other people to enjoy them too, so this article in the newspaper gave her the idea.

I asked Berdien if she made the cabinet herself and she did. "Your husband?" I asked, but no, she has followed an education to furniture maker, so she made it herself! To start of her father gave her a little porthole. She wanted a house with a roof but a regular roof is of course way too common if you are a furniture maker. A little bit of a challenge please! So the roof became a stepped gable made out of solid wood. We call this a "trapgevel" here in The Netherlands as you will find them in Amsterdam houses on the canals.

This is a piece of a tree where she put on all kinds of different hooks. Most of the hooks aren't really hooks but she made them into that. Above on the right hand side you see a lid of her favorite thea pot that broke.

The cabinet in the bathroom is very nice but impossible to clean. It is made of wood and when I clean the shelves with a wet cloth, which needs to be done once in while, it stays wet for hours and it isn't easy to do so because it is rough and the cloth can't slide. So I was thinking of adhesive film and ordered that online. I gave the link above here but I don't think you can buy it from abroad. I'm sure there are plenty webshops over there to buy it.

What a mess! I will clean every jar right away and order it needly.Unbelievable how many toiletries a person can have. I don't want anything on the sink so the cabinet is full. I also put the stock in here.

Eerst maar eens goed stofzuigen.First let's vacuum.

Dan met een nat doekje. Zie je hoe nat het wordt? En het duurde zeker een uur voordat het droog was.Use a wet cloth. Do you see how wet it gets? It took at least an hour to get dry.

Cut the adhesive film in the right size. O, let's read the instruction first! For which I almost don't have the patience. Yeh right, what does it say? On a rough bottom first sand it and even put a cote of paint??? Are they crazy? No way, just throw it on, we will see what happens.

Het heeft ruitjes aan de achterkant dus dat is makkelijk met knippen.It is checkered on the back, which makes it easy to cut.

Ik eindig met hetzelfde vaasje bloemen van vorige keer. Ik wil je even laten zien hoe rechtop die blauwe druifjes zijn gaan staan.I'm ending with the same flowers of last time. I want to show you how erect the blue bells were after a night.

En dan de laatste met het zonnetje erop. Dus niet vandaag genomen, dat is duidelijk.And the last one with the sun shining on the flowers. Didn't take that one today, because it is a dark day here.

Nick is living here temporary again until he is leaving for his big trip to South-America and he asked me to make spare ribs. I have a delicious recipe but I never eat it anymore because it contains to much sugar for me. ( she said while putting a piece of chocolate in her mouth ) ( but it contains 85% cocoa so it almost doesn't count)

Here we go. Buy spare ribs for the amount of people you need it for. I didn't like the ones I had this time; to thick and big, could hardly cut them. So watch what you buy.Throw them in a casserole === oven on 355 F==== for 45 minutesI'm leaving this picture small because I don't like the look of raw meat.

I always make extra sauce and use that a couple days later for kale and saus, delicious!The sauce is what makes this recipe delicious.half a bottle of sirop (don't know how big your bottles are though!)just as much ketchupa sliced onion3 cloves of garlica splash of lemona drop of mustarda splash of kikomana couple of cloves a chunk of butterblack pepperboil and mix the whole thing well.